Reoccurrence in Lana's melodies and structures?

[lavender-sunshine 79]

Does the beginning of Catch & Release make anyone else think of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds? The first time I heard it I swore it was sampling that song.

[Rayse 657]

When you're singing along, you can interchange i'm pretty when I cry from Pretty When You Cry with money on the side from Sad Girl because the melodies are very similar.

[DominicMars 1,761]

There is a thin line between having a style and using a formula. She is no worse, imo, than Depeche Mode or Alanis Morrisette, in terms of milking a style, although there are obvious complications for LDR, like multiple versions of the same songs (e.g., every man gets his wish) and intentional reuse of musical themes in very different ways (e.g., Dangerous Girl and You and Me). But the thing that strikes me as weird is the range of styles. I would never have predicted (most) Lizzy Grant emerging from May Jailer or (most) Lana Del Rey emerging from Lizzy Grant. Then the leaks and unreleased often convey other flavors (e.g., lots of really decent bubble-gum pop). So yeah, certain songs have similarities to each other, but the range overall is what I focus on. Wish the leaks/unreleased/aborted-releases were a more proper part of her discography, as I think that range is what reflects her greatness the most (well for me, at least).

Too true about Alanis Morissette. I love her to death, but mhmm

[slang 1,509]

Money Power Glory at about 1:57 for about 15 secs seems to phase in to a slowed or maybe key-altered version of "Us Against the World". In fact, the words seem conceptually related to UATW at that point too.

[primadonna_teen 20]

Off to the races:

swimming pool glimmering darling

white bikini off in my red nail polish

Watch me in the swimming pool

Bright blue ripples you

Sitting sipping on your black crystal aw yeah

 

Then the swimming pool scene from the SOC music video. Similar concept.

[antivietnam 1]

blue hydrangeas from 'old money' / weeping scents and blue hydrangea from 'elvis'; also, similarly enough, 'old money' sounds a lot like 'a time for us' by nino rota

[bloodstriped 24]

Children Of The Bad Revolution and Blue Jeans guitar riffs are both present in Ultraviolence (song).

 

Yeah, she reuses a lot of her lyrics and riffs, but it always works. I never think, "Ugh, she's ripping from her old songs."

[Mafiosa 1,088]

A lot of her chord progressions are similar or follow the same pattern.

 

She has a signature melody sort of.

A lot of her lyrics get recycled, as well.

 

Coney Island, Pontiac, Chevy, summer, Marilyn, heaven, etc.

[ZeroZero 2,223]

Try singing Cola to Body Electric or Body Electric to Cola. They both sound exactly the same.

[prostitutestare 142]

I dont know if this is the right thread for it, but am I the only one who gets such life from Lana's use of that eerie vibrato she tends to tack on to her vocal delivery. I cannot pinpoint which sings she uses it in, and I did not hear it much on UV, in fact her vocal delivery on UV, while fab was somewhaf staid, as I did not hear many melismas or vibratos, or any other techniques, much. The vibrato I am referring to is used heavily in the introductory "Happy Birthday, Mr President" that Lana sings in the beginning of the "National Anthem" video. She uses it a lot in Paradise also, but I just cannot think where right now.